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“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” – Maimonides Source: Left Right Decisions by Gavril Papatiodis Flickr Licensed Under ...

Good decision-making skills can make the world an easier, less daunting place. Jan. 19, 2012 -- John F. Kennedy once said, "Change is the law of life." Fast forward to today, when the law of life is ...

Smart leaders with vast data still make bad decisions. But others, under similar pressure, make game-changing ones. In 1982, Johnson & Johnson swiftly recalled 31 million bottles of Tylenol after ...

The difficulty of predicting the future complicates decision-making for people at every level of an organization from low-level employees who may be angling for a promotion or thinking of a career ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

Nick Sirianni understood that his decision to rest most of his key starters with the Eagles still having an opportunity to ...

Your star employee just quit, and with them went the institutional knowledge behind your company’s most profitable product line. The decisions that led to its success? Lost forever. This scenario ...

Only 45 percent of employees know what’s expected of them at work, according to Gallup’s latest research on workplace engagement. At the same time, an entrepreneur named Nell Wulfhart is charging ...

Tactical Decision-Making is a strategy of focusing on immediate actions to assess the immediate options, weighing their potential risks and applying these factors to a decision. It sounds like what a ...

Why do good leaders sometimes make spectacularly bad decisions? In this month’s Harvard Business Review, Andrew Campbell and co-authors Jo Whitehead and Sydney Finkelstein discuss what they learned by ...